Friday Column

Friday Column

COVID-19: As Nigeria slowly moves into lockdown

We are Africans so we hoped and prayed our continent will be spared the COVID-19 virus because the weather is too hot and, in any case,  we were not r

Bjorn Beckman (1938-2019): A Life of Struggle and friendship

Yesterday, friends, comrades, students and associates of Bjorn Beckman convened at Nicon Luxury hotel for a Memorial Colloquium to celebrate his life.

Bishop of Truro, extremism and religious persecution in Nigeria

Last week, I attended a workshop at Wilton Part in Sussex on the theme of fostering social cohesion in Nigeria. It was organized by the Foreign and Co

National Symposium on Farmer-Herder Crisis

Last week, I was in Birnin Kebbi for the National Symposium on the persistent conflicts that have affected not only farmer-herder relations but has al

Security: Mr. President, choose your faction and act

Nigeria’s worse kept secret over the past four years is that the security chiefs have been factionalised, fractionized and different sections therein